Improvement in thimble-skeins



R. M. MCGRATH.

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No. 73,738. Patented Jan. 28, 186g.

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R. M. MQGRATH, OF LAFAYETTE. INDIANA.

Letters Patent No. 73,738, dated January 28. 1868.

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T0 ALL WHOM 1T MAY Corman-N: i Be it known that I, R. M'. MeGRATH, of Lafayette, jn'the State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement on Thimble-Skeins; and I do hereby. declare that the following is 'a ufull, clear, and

exact description, of the same, reference being hadto theaccornpanying drawings, and to the letters and marks thereon, which said drawings form part of this speeiieation and show my invention as applied to the ordinary thimble-skein.

The cast-iron thimble-skein is very liable to 'fracture and breakage at the endathe loss to dealers and wagon-makers in some instances reaching as high as twenty per eent. on their stock on account of such breakage. In order to obviate this loss, and to render the thimble-skein durable, I connect or add to the ends liable to fracture wrought-iron bands or supports. i v

` The thimble-srkein a, shown by the drawings, has around its larger and inner end a. Wroughtiron band, b,

' and within its outer or smaller end a like baud or support, c. The thimble-skein isshown as being within the box Land the viw that of alongitudinalvseetion'. The band Z1 on the larger end will more commonly be ,shrunk on, and that, e, at the'smaller end will generally be placeflf in the flask or mould and united tothe end by the casting, though both-may be fitted pn, or in either way, by shrinking or by casting. The width or size of the bands or supportsmay-be greater or less than here shown, the intention beinglto give to the ends full and ample support to protect the east metal from injury by handling, and to increase the durability of the thimble-Skein.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, the thimbleLskein, of cast iron, with wrought-iron bantls or supports, as herein set forth. vv f l This specification signed this 26th day of November, 1867.

R. M. MeGRATH. Witnesses:

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J. H. GALLAGHER, E. T. Janus.. 

